jawbreaker
See also: jaw-breaker
English
Alternative forms
- jaw breaker
Noun
jawbreaker (plural jawbreakers)
- A large, extremely hard, boiled candy, typically spherical.
- Synonym: gobstopper
- A long, hard-to-pronounce word.
- The word “callipygous” is something of a jawbreaker.
- Synonyms: mouthful, jaw-twister
- (boxing, slang) A hard blow to the side of the face.
- 1987, James Clarke, Like it was: The Star, 100 Years in Johannesburg, page 9:
- Bendoff went pluckily forward, but only to receive a jawbreaker from Couper's left, […]
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See also
- crackjaw
- niggerball (South African, dated, offensive)
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